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One of North America’s most famous Ice Age predators has just lost its name — and its identity turned out to be far more interesting. The extinct “American cheetah,” long imagined as a faster, bigger cousin of the African cheetah,…
Bats have a strange superpower, and it is not echolocation. Some bats live for decades — extraordinarily long for their size — while rarely getting cancer. New research suggests they pull this off by combining two strategies: powerful immune defenses…
Scientists have found a feather in one of the least glamorous places imaginable: inside a piece of fossilized dinosaur poop, 66 million years old. And this strange little time capsule may help answer one of the biggest questions in natural…
